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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Metzger tell Oedipa about Beaconsfield Cigarettes?
(a) Inverarity owned a 51% interest in the tabacco process.
(b) Inverarity owned a 51% interest in the cancer research.
(c) Inverarity owned a 51% interest in the filter-free process.
(d) Inverarity owned a 51% interest in the filter process.

2. In the car after Oedipa and Metzger leave the theater, who do they hear on KCUF radio?
(a) Mucho.
(b) The Paranoids.
(c) Inverarity.
(d) Di Presso.

3. What does Oedipa tell Dr. Hilarius that she doesn't trust?
(a) Pills nor the doctor.
(b) God.
(c) Mucho.
(d) Pills nor psycho babble.

4. What does Funch, Mucho's boss, tell Mucho he is going to do in the first chapter of the novel?
(a) Curb Mucho's use of credit cards.
(b) Tape all Mucho's office interactions.
(c) Cancel Mucho's raise.
(d) Tape all Mucho's phone conversations.

5. What type of business is Hogan's Seraglio in downtown San Narciso?
(a) A nightclub.
(b) A hotel.
(c) A resturant.
(d) A Turkish bath.

6. Where does Metzger come upon the actor who plays him in the TV pilot while exploring Fangoso Lagoons?
(a) He is disguised as one of the Paranoids
(b) He is hiding under a tarp in a skin-diving suit.
(c) He is disguised as a woman.
(d) He is hiding under a roller coaster in a skin-diving suit.

7. After thinking about Inverarity for the afternoon in Chapter 1, what does Oedipa suddenly remember?
(a) A marriage proposal from Inverarity.
(b) A three a.m. phone call last year from Inverarity.
(c) A letter last year from Inverarity.
(d) An urgent phone call from Inverarity asking her for help.

8. After Oedipa has lunch with her lawyer, what does he ask her to do?
(a) Run away with him.
(b) Go to a motel.
(c) Pay the bill.
(d) Sleep with him.

9. What is Metzger's current occupation?
(a) Disc jockey.
(b) Lawyer.
(c) Real estate mogul.
(d) Actor.

10. What choice does Oedipa make in regard to Dr. Hilarius, even though she recognizes there will never be a way to know if she is cured?
(a) To go on medication.
(b) Not to leave her "shrink ."
(c) To go off the medication.
(d) To find another "shrink."

11. Oedipa protests to Metzger at the end of the play that she's Republican, and she's not motivated by a desire to right wrongs, but simply by ____________.
(a) Conflict.
(b) Contentment.
(c) Currency.
(d) Curiosity.

12. What did Inverarity tell Metzger about Oedipa?
(a) He said she would be easy.
(b) He said she would have an easy time being executor.
(c) He said she was easy to talk to.
(d) He said she wouldn't be easy.

13. What song do the Paranoids play for Oedipa and Metzger the first night in the motel?
(a) Serene.
(b) Serenity.
(c) Serenada.
(d) Serenade.

14. What does San Narciso remind Oedipa of as she views it from a hilltop?
(a) A postcard of San Francisco.
(b) A circuit card she once saw in a transistor radio.
(c) The song "I Want to Kiss Your Feet."
(d) Her hometown of Kinneret.

15. Pierce Inverarity was a _____________?
(a) Radio station disc jockey.
(b) Real estate mogul.
(c) Used car salesman.
(d) Cattle rancher.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the members of Mike Fallopian's group required to do each week?

2. What is the name of the town where Oedipa and Mucho live?

3. What is striking to Oedipa about the street plan of San Narciso?

4. What does Metzger ask Oedipa to bet on in Chapter 2?

5. What happens when a heavy, pale young man carrying a mail sack appears in the doorway of the bar where Oedipa and Metzger are talking to Mike Fallopian?

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